Current Affairs Quiz - April 2022

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Tripura Chief Minister Bipab Kumar Deb recently launched “Mukhyamantri Nibir Matsyachash Prakalpa”. It is an integrated fishery scheme.
Tripura government has allocated Rs 6 crore in the budget for promotion and support to biofloc technology for fish production. The Chief Minster also pushed for Biofloc Fish Farming as a environment-friendly technique for fish farming.

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US President Joe Biden signed the “Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act” into law, as he made lynching a federal hate crime.
As many as 4,743 persons were lynched between 1882 and 1968, with 3,446 of them being Black. This act was named after the murder of a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago by a group of White men in Mississippi in 1955 as he was alleged to have whistled at a White woman.

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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann announced that his government has decided to start doorstep delivery of ration in the state.
While it is an optional scheme, the government officials will call Punjab’s residents and ask them for their preferred time slot. Earlier, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had tried to implement the same scheme in Delhi.

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Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) approved the procurement of 15 indigenously developed Light Combat Helicopters (LCH) at a cost of ₹ 3,887 crore.
The defence ministry said 10 helicopters will be for the Indian Air Force and five will be for the Indian Army. Light Combat Helicopter Limited Series Production (LSP) is an indigenously developed combat helicopter containing around 45 per cent indigenous content by value, developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL).

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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has declared a nationwide public emergency amidst protests over the worst economic crisis in the island nation.
The special gazette notification declared a public emergency in Sri Lanka with immediate effect from April 1. The residents are facing shortages in fuel, cooking gas, essentials in short supply and long hours of power cuts.

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Australian Team defeated England by 71 runs in the final to win their record seventh ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup.
Alyssa Healy of Australia smashed 170 to take Australia to a mammoth 356 for five against England in the final. Another player Nat Sciver remained unbeaten on 148. The England team could score only 285 in 43.4 overs.

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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy digitally inaugurated 13 new districts in the state, taking the total number to 26.
All the new districts have come into effect from April 4. The state government issued the official gazette notification for creating 13 new districts under the AP Districts Formation Act, Section 3(5).

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As per the data released by the Ministry of Jal Shakti, over 48 percent rural households in the country have received tap water supply in their homes so far.
Out of 19.32 crore rural households in the country, 9.35 crore households are reported to have tap water supply in their homes so far. In Goa, Telangana, Haryana, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, provision for tap water supply to all rural households has been completed.

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Punjab National Bank has recently made the Positive Pay System (PPS) compulsory for cheque payments worth Rs 10 lakh and above.
Under the Positive Pay System (PPS) developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), a customer issuing the high-value cheque has to reconfirm some essential details before clearing. It aims to protect the customers from security threats

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The Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying (DAHD) has launched a pilot project in the state of Uttarakhand to implement the One Health Framework by One Health Support Unit.
The key objective of the Unit is to develop a national One Health roadmap based on the learnings of the pilot project implementation. Inter-ministerial One Health committee under the chairmanship of Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India has been established to lead the implementation of the One Health Support Unit.